Remember
all those games Telltale announced a while back?
Here's the first in-game picture of
The Walking Dead!
And what can I say, besides the fact that it looks great!
This is in-game graphics? Boy, am I sure my computer won't be able to run that! XD
If
Back to the Future was Telltale graphics at their cartooniest/stylized and the upcoming
Jurassic Park is their take on a realistic direction...well Walking Dead looks like a pretty good compromised to look realistic and containt cartoony aspects.
I guess I see why they went this way, despite the color, it looks pretty close to the comic book series, specially with these light cell shading effects (see the darker parts on the guy's clothes, they way it appears like inked shadows).
Very nice! Also this is probably the best background I saw in a Telltale game!
The only awkward part that might or might not ruin it will be the animations, which has always been their weakest aspect. I mean, some people criticize
Back to the Future graphics or direction... I liked it, reminded me of the old BTTF cartoon in a way. And it looked nice to be honest, those haters are just
Gears of War-fanboys who want all video games to look the same (boring) way!
No, Telltale's main problem, besides easy puzzles/too accessible adventure games for the mainstream audience, has always been in the awkward animations which ruined a bit of BTTF's great character design. And might ruin the above look of Walking Dead...
I hope they really work hard on that.. (zombies won't be that hard to move around, so they can concentrate on the human survivors...right?...)
Also, they confirmed they would work on importing data from one episode to another, something that had lots of problems in BTTF:
"Characters that die in one game in Episode 1 will stay dead, or if the player keeps them alive, they'll reappear in later episodes." - Jake "Rodford" Rodkin
Good to hear!
In BTTF you were supposed to chose Marty McFly's alias during the prohibition era, which should have carried over the other episodes...but it didn't work that well so everyone ended being called Michael Corleone over the other episodes. (though I heard some were able to have some "Harry Callahan" slips into one or two dialogues...Telltale usual bugs and glitches..)
More pictures, concept art and more, below!~
Henry Cavill will play Superman/Clark Kent in this reboot.
Bane left me skeptical, but this...
And don't FANBOY at me. Good director or not, good cast or not, a movie is the sum of its part, from design/story to post-production.
About the "Bat-tumbler-bike" thingie, or whatever it's called, I'm pretty sure she stole it from Bats, kinda the same way the Catwoman from Tim Burton flick did steal some tech from her foes (the electrocutioner comes to mind), perhaps it's even the one